When six-year-old Jared sees the undead creature killing his sick mother, he thinks it's Death itself, her sickness in human form.

But Jared will come to know Death for what it is -- a vampire and now his father, the giver of comfort and discipline, the teacher of power and survival.

And on Jared's high school class trip to Europe, he'll find out how well he learned his father's lessons as ancient enemies of his family start tracking him.